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Les Miserables: a non-review
Spoilers below, IDK I have a feeling all of you already have seen the film or the musical or know the story, though. Going in, I did not know anything about the story other than it involved bread, candlesticks, and a malnourished child.
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bag o' links
Best manga of the year that has not (yet?) been licensed for English translation: 7 Seeds. I know I say this every time, but 7 Seeds, holy crap. If you like feminist-friendly post-apocalyptic action-adventure shojo manga, this is the series for you.
Best manga of the year currently in English translation: REAL. I'm just gonna go ahead and ( Read more... ) -
One Piece ch 643
Thoughts ( Read more... ) -
one piece - here we go again
Up to ch. 629.
[Spoilers for the one fan even more behind than me]Oda, I love you, and Fishman Island is fun and all, but can we please stop it with the dead mothers? Portraying them as noble, righteous, and good doesn't really change the evidence that you apparently regard self-sacrifice and death to be part of a mother's role/identity. And do not give me lines about it "making sense in the ( Read more... ) -
playing catch-up
Finally I am getting around to catching up on One Piece. I'm behind by less than 100 chapters, so that's...good....
Previously, I had been depressed because, since I started reading One Piece 7 freaking years ago, I have grown older than all of the major characters. But today I realized, no! With the time skip, Nico Robin is 30, and I am newly ( Read more... ) -
Old school
I'm rereading Inuyasha, because why not. I didn't like him the first time around, but this time I'm kind of loving how incredibly bitchy Sesshoumaru is. -
the blogger's wife
The other day, I saw yet another novel using the "[insert profession]'s wife/daughter" device as a title. I feel like, at this point, it is an extremely lazy publishing trick, yet - since I am myself an extremely lazy person - one I'd like to cash in on. Here are some book titles I've been meaning to shop around ( Read more... ) -
the definition of 'hot mess'
Mockingjay, guys. Where to start?
[Spoiler (click to open)]The lack of narrative coherence ( Read more... )
